Railway or other car.



No. 7|0,59|. Patentad Oct. 7, |902.

J. MAUREH 8. C. FURTHER.

RAILWAY 08 OTHER CAR.

(Application filed Dec. 9, 1901.)

(No Model.)

UNTTED STATES PATENT EEICE.

JOSEF MAURER AND CARL FURTNER, OF VIENNA, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

RAILWAY OR OTHER CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO.Y71O,591, dated October '7, 1902. Application lecl December 9, 1901. Serial No. 85,192. (N mOflSI- To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOSEF MAURER, head conductor of the Imperial Royal State Railway, of XIV Goldschlazgasse a9, and CARL FURTNER, butcher, of XIII Auschutzgasse 21, Vienna, Austria-Hungary, subjects of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in or Relating to Railway or other Cars, of which the following is a specication.

The present invention relates to railway and other cars or wagons in which an automatic discharge of goods can be effected through hinged flaps or doors on the vehicle, which when opened form discharge-passages leading outwardly.

The accompanying drawings show a construction of a freight railway-car according to the present invention.

Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, of the carriage; Fig. 2, a Cross-section on the line A A of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 a plan view of the carriage.

The car-space is divided in the present case into two similar compartments 2 and 3 by a middle transverse division or bar 1, the bottom of eachv compartment being formed of four inclined walls sloping toward the center and toward a longitudinal bar at a lower level. On this bar is arranged the hinge for the two lateral flaps or bottom parts 5, the outer ends of which are normally raised and are maintained in this position by projections on two vertical doors hinged at the top and arranged in the longitudinal walls of the car. In the drawings the outer edges of the lateral bottom flaps 5 rest upon supports 8 on the lateral doors. These lateral hinged doors are held in their closed position by means of bolts or the like. A suitable form of locking device, as shown in the drawings, consists of two bolts and 11, the outer ends of which pass through guides at the edges 12 of the doors and the inner ends of which are connected to a pivoted lever 1i. The operatingarm 15 of the lever can be attached to a chain 16, connected to a hand-lever 19 at the end of the car.

The bolts 10 and 11 engage, when the doors are closed, in eyes or brackets 17 on the carwalls, thus maintaining the doors, as well as the bottom flaps, in their normal positions. Upon pulling the chain 16 the bolts are thrown out of engagement with their eyes or brackets, and the doors open outward and upward under the influence of springs 18 or counterweights, as shown in Fig. 2. Thus the bottom iiap loses its support and turns downward about its central hinges until it comes against an abutment, (frame of the car or the like,) and thus forms an inclined surface along which the contents of the car are automatically discharged without any difficulty.

The car shown is provided with four-flaps, and the contents can therefore be discharged at two points ou each longitudinal side of the car. l

Having now particularly described and as certained the nature of our invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is- 1. A railway or other car adapted to automatically discharge its freight comprising Vertical side walls and a centrally-inclined bottom or floor, in combination with a door in the side wall hinged at its upper edge and adapted when closed to support the outer edge of one of the inclined bottom flaps or iioors of the car allowing it to fall downward so as to form an outwardly-inclined discharge-guide when the door is released and opened outward.

2. In a railway or other car, a compartment having two side walls, each inclined upwardly from a central point toward a side of the car, in combination with a door in each side of the car, each adapted when closed to support the two side walls in their inclined position and arranged so that when either door is opened one of the side walls will fall to form a continuation of the other inclined wall extending to and discharging through said open door.

3. In a railway or other car, a compartment having two side walls, each inclined upwardly from a central point toward a side of the car, a door arranged in one side of said car and adapted when closed to support one of the side walls in its upper inclined position, bolts arranged to lock said door in the side of the car, and a spring normally tending to elevate said door when said bolts are released and to thereby permit one of said side walls to fall and IOC form a continuation oi' the other inclined side wall extending to and discharging through said open door.

4. A ear of the kind described comprising inwardly and downwardly inclined transverse bottom oors downwardly and inwardly iuelined side flaps, hinged at their lower edges to a support, a vertical side door hinged at the top of the ear-wall and a support on the ro inner upper surface of said door for the outer l edge of the hinged flap, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSEF MAURER. CARL FURTNER.

Witnesses:

FRANZ REITER, ALVEsTo S. HOGUE. 

